I long thought the only solution to Afghanistan was to turn it into a glass covered parking lot. Nuke every nook and cranny in the whole country. You cannot deal with an entire country irrevocably mired in 4th century barbarism. Left to their own devices, perhaps their existence would be tolerable. But it never could be. They consistently wanted to harbor other country barbarism and to export its own tribal terror to the rest of the world. Glass covered parking lot. Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
My uninformed opinion FWIW - is that - while the Taliban were never going to change, the country could have been policed indefinitely from Bagram Air Base.
A careful Trump drawdown anchored on Bagram would have looked very different from Biden's Utter Debacle.
Just as Vietnam and Iraq could have ended in stable, honourable settlements, but each was turned into unspeakably bloody f*ckfests by the Democrats.